Warren Ellis's Blog, page 238

Clementine

Nice cover, Cherie, you lucky girl. On sale here. Also, congrats to Cherie on selling two more novels in the BONESHAKER series; making, with CLEMENTINE, A Clockwork Century Quintet.

REAL SHIT / I AM YOUR DRIVER -7%%%%% VOL. I

Via Mr Reynolds, a new mix by Oneohtrix Point Never.

Station Ident: Another Grey Day

(Maika)

Night Music: Returnal

Oneohtrix Point Never.

G'night.

Links for 2010-06-07

Huge seas 'once existed on Mars'
"The 2,000 km-wide, 8km-deep Hellas basin is a giant impact crater – the largest such structure on Mars. The researchers say their data support a lake between 4.5 and 3.5 billion years ago."
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Cover Remodel: THE YELLOW BOOK

Every week or two I challenge the artists on my message board to reinvent a cover or character from the past. Usually comics-based. Lately I've been throwing them some weird ones. Like this:

The Yellow Book, published in London from 1894 to 1897, was a quarterly literary periodical (priced at 5s.) that lent its name to the "Yellow" 1890s. It was a leading journal of the British 1890s; to some degree associated with Aestheticism and Decadence, the magazine contained a wide range of literary...

Things That Are Wrong, Part 23984

Rachael Gray:

Headline Of The Day

"SA vultures under threat from brain-smoking gamblers"

This glorious story, involving the practise of muti, really requires time to savour:

With the World Cup dominating the media, and gambling, in South Africa, the temptation to gain an edge by imbibing the aroma of smouldering vulture brain will surely be irresistible.

Writing A Novel 8jun10

la la la counting words la la la reading old words la la la cutting out words la la la cutting out scenes la la la adding bits so the stupid fucking story makes sense la la la going back and cutting out a flabby bit la la la oh shit back to 7000 words oops la la la writing more words and aiming for a solid 10K by the end of the day and then sending them out so I can't do more rewriting

Neveldine/Taylor's ZEROES

Anyone know what happened to the Neveldine/Taylor tv project ZEROES that went into development at NBC last November? I thought that'd be on the easy track into the autumn season, but I've seen no mention of it, either for September or mid-season.